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Reasons Children Have Reading Problems that Corporate Reformers Don’t Talk About

March 20, 2019 By Nancy Bailey 32 Comments

We know of many variables that help children learn to read. But well-designed peer-reviewed research continues to be ignored when it comes to these variables. At the same time, states and school districts continue to promote destructive school policies. We know such policies fail. So, why are they still being used? Here’s why some children […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Children's Health, Common Core, Corporate Reform, Grade Retention, Inappropriate Reading Expectations, Large Class Size, Lead in school drinking water, Loss of libraries and Librarians, Overreliance on technology, public schools, Reading Problems, School Nurses, special education, Teacher Preparation

“Dropout Factories”: The Disparaging & Hypocritical Reference to America’s Public Schools and Teachers

April 25, 2017 By Nancy Bailey 18 Comments

How many times do you hear America’s public high schools called “Dropout Factories?” How do those words make you feel? The general public hears these words and unfairly accepts that our public high schools and the teachers working in them are failing. Dropout Factories were highlighted in the awful anti-public school propaganda film Waiting for […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: At-Risk Students, counselors, Dropout Factories, Dropout Prevention, Dropouts, Grade Retention, Johns Hopkins University, Robert Balfanz, School Nurses, School Psychologists, School-based after-school programs, special education

13 Reasons Why Grade Retention is Terrible, and 12 Better Solutions

May 30, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 19 Comments

There are few education issues that anger me more than massive retention of third graders based on one test score! Mississippi recently became the latest state to embrace retention. It’s a huge mistake. Adults fail children by not assisting them with their learning problems. Why is massive school retention terrible? A retained student doesn’t learn […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Grade Retention, Solutions

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"The current national privacy bill in Congress (which might-in other respects-actually be good) won’t do anything for most students either, as it excludes public institutions such as public schools & vendors that handle student data" #privacy #surveillance https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/

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"I wonder why all the folks yelling about 'learning loss' haven't made a peep about the teaching & learning time lost every year to standardized testing & test prep." ~Dr Robinson @mrobmused .@nancyflanagan .@NancyEBailey1 https://www.mitchellrobinsonforstateschoolboard.org/

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I understand not wanting to, being able to, or feeling it is a burden to buy your children school supplies.

I get it. Don’t blame the teachers though. They don’t want you to have to buy them and they sure as hell shouldn’t have to buy them all either.

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